Kenneth P.Troccoli

On a full-time basis, Professor Troccoli is an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the
Eastern District of Virginia. His office represents indigent defendants charged with
criminal offenses in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Troccoli joined that office
in January 2002 and since that time has represented defendants charged with various
offenses including fraud, drug trafficking, firearms offenses, immigration, child
pornography, sex trafficking, and terrorism. He also has represented in a habeas
corpus proceeding a terrorism defendant detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Professor Troccoli also has worked on appellate matters, including three cases that
were argued before the Supreme Court.

Professor Troccoli received his B.A. in 1981 from Boston College, his J.D. in 1984 from
the George Washington University Law School, and his LL.M. (concentration in
Constitutional Law) in 2001 from the Georgetown University Law Center. After
receiving his J.D., Professor Troccoli served as law clerk to Chief Judge H. Carl
Moultrie, I in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Thereafter, for over five
years, he practiced primarily white-collar criminal defense at three law firms in
Washington, D.C.: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin &
Kahn; and Krooth & Altman. He then joined the Office of Public Defender for the City of
Alexandria where he worked for over six years (until 1999) first as an assistant public
defender and then as a senior assistant public defender. He then returned to school
and following receipt of his LL.M. in 2001, joined the Office of Federal Public Defender
in Alexandria.

Professor Troccoli’s prior teaching experience includes positions as a legal writing
instructor at the George Washington University Law School. He also has lectured at
many legal conferences on various topics of federal criminal law.